Author: Prof. Shade T. Shutter (Arizona State University) As Ian Kelman previously wrote here, Resilience can mean almost anything. And yet its presence in the scientific literature has undergone an explosive growth, with resilience-themed listings in the Web of...
Guest Authors: Dr. Sebastiaan van Herk 1,2, Carolina Hollmann1 and Prof. Chris Zevenbergen2 1 - Bax & Willems 2- UNESCO-IHE With climate change mitigation and adaptation increasingly present on the urban agenda, many local governments aim to increase resilience of...
The Urban Resilience Research Network is pleased to present a new section titled “Viewpoints”, in which a variety of scholars from different disciplines will introduce their perspectives on urban resilience in order to help framing relevant research questions. One of...
Guest Author: Prof. Ilan Kelman (University College London) So much has been written about 'resilience' that it could mean almost anything. How useful (or not) is resilience for people affected by development concerns such as disaster risk, including climate change...
Guest Author: Prof. Jon Coaffee (University of Warwick) This century, more than any other, is the century of the city, where rapid urbanisation and greater global connectedness present unprecedented urban challenges. Such increased urbanisation also concentrates risk...
During the last Resilience conference "Resilience and Development: Mobilizing for Transformation", held in Montpellier, France (May 4-8), a debate about urban resilience and transition was launched in order to bring urban resilience framework forward. Prof. Thomas...
Join our PhD Workshop "framing urban resilience, innovation and development" Meet us at the Third International Science and policy Conference on the resilience of social & ecological systems, Montpellier, France Celebrating three years from its inception, URB-Net...
We are pleased to announce that our first joint publication "Multidisciplinary perspectives on urban resilience" is finally available ONLINE after its successful presentation at the Urban Sustainability and Resilience Conference 2012, at the UCL Centre of Urban...